Things I'm working on
The list.
Some of it is done. Some of it is still in progress. I keep adding to it.
Done
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Walk the Camino de Santiago
The French Way, across northern Spain. Yellow arrows all the way west.
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Trek to Everest Base Camp
17,598 feet. Not the summit. The place you go to understand why people try.
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Homeschool eight children to graduation
All eight. Start to finish. The curriculum was mine to write.
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Found the HOG Society
Built something from nothing, for people who needed a place to belong.
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Design a crop circle garden
An odd project. The kind you can only appreciate from above.
In progress
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Complete the Appalachian Trail
Section-hiked over years. Most of it is behind me. Only a few stretches left to close.
The 100 list
All of it.
Numbered as I wrote it.
- Rim to rim in one shot
- Climb mt. kilimanjaro
- Go to india
- Foster a child
- Build a barn event venue
- Learn to shuffle dance
- Learn to do quebecois step dancing
- Learn to tap dance
- Do a stand-up comedy set
- Traverse panama canal on foot
- Write a book
- Finish the ATin progress
- Do a complete podcast
- Texas river safari
- Go to New Zealand
- Get a PhD
- Go to antarctica
- Go to South America
- Ride a bike from Pittsburgh to DC
- Cycle around Iceland
- Go to China
- Visit all US National Parks
- Read BoM same as age
- 5,000 temple ordinances
- Make quilts for all grandkids
- Record an album
- Have a house concert
- Maintain weight <160 for a year
- Enter a cross country ski race
- Learn to play mandolin at dance speed
- Have an event space business
- Busk regularly for a year
- Have a family book club
- Become an expert birder
- Become an expert artist
- Write 50 good songs
- Write 50 good poems
- Deploy for Red Cross
- Go on a mission
- Earn $100,000
- Help Luke play banjo
- Make series of 20 YouTube videos
- Mathkwondo
- Music Camp in Quebec
- Finish duolingo- Spanish
- Finish duolingo- Russian
- Finish duolingo- Chinese
- Finish duolingo- Latin
- Finish duolingo- French
- Finish duolingo- Hindi
- Finish duolingo- Arabic
- Pursue trees making rain idea and act.
- Mentor a struggling teen to success.
- Get another GAP at Red Cross
- Go to Australia
- Substitute teach- math
- Make a micro adventure app.
- Find 100 geocaches
- Walk under power lines for 5 miles
- Learn to ski
- Have control of a garden
- Have a haunted woods
- Find a meteorite
- Play in a drumline
- Learn the saxophone
- Learn the trumpet
- Learn guitar
- Find a teachable group dance from Africa
- Learn to play the bombard
- Finish Appalachian trailin progress
- Walk or bike across the US
- Kayak Great lakes to NYC
- Susquehanna River patch
- Global Scavenger hunt thing
- Be in a musical
- Develop a good folk singing voice
- Finish duolingo- Portuguese
- Learn Tai chi
- Do 100 push-ups, heel raises, sit-ups, lunges, dead bugs, glute Bridges, overhead presses, squats daily for a year. Alternate daily. Make chart
- Run a race on a NASCAR track
- Do a Ragnar
- Arctic circle
- Northern lights
- Lava
- 10,000 hours of family history
- Start local scavenger hunt
- Start a music camp
- Climb a 14-er
- Visit Egypt
- Work on a campaign
- Memorize 100 quotes/poems
- Learn philosophy
- Be a dispatcher
- Israel trip
- Plant cherry trees for money
- Be a park ranger
- Be a bball score keeper.
- Pet funeral business
- Search and rescue
- Help 100 people get baptized
- How did wwi start
- Civil war expert
- Become expert fisherman
- Be on softball team
- National parks
- DC bucket list
- Go to BYU education week
- Nantucket
- Rubik's cube from memory
- Make a board game
- Write local history musical
- Deploy with red cross
- Visit svalbard
- Advocate for Grand canyon
- Plymouth/ Salem